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Welcome to the "More General Information Page" of the March Mom's & March Dad's WebRing!
I will try to explain a bit on this site who I am and how it happened that I founded this webring on July 20st 1997.
This webring is targeted to parents of a March child (born or due) but as time passed by I have received a few submissions from "none" March parents and included a few site for one or an other reason into this webring which I will explain a bit further down.
Currently (dd. 04-19-98) this webring includes mostly web sites created by March parents (mom's and dad's of a child born in March) but also: - Janja's page (an incredable designed baby home page from Jugoslavia - check it out!) - Laura's page (Laura is born in March) - Keith's page (he is a proud October dad) - Susan's site (an awsome shopping site all around your baby) - a few sites of supposed to be March mom's who did not deliver their babies on shedule...

So, as you can see every parent of a March Baby (born or due) is very welcome to submit her or his homepage.
But if you have a great site which is baby- or childen related do not hesitate and submit it too, I will check it out and after consideration maybe include it in our webring.
The goal of this ring should be to exchange expiriences and to give or receive support from other members but most of all to share the happy moments of parenting.
Currently there are 1005 rings (dd. 04-19-98) listed under the catogery Arts and Humanities | Children and our webring is listed on place eight under the Top 100 Rings in this catogery (as of today, April 19th 1998). This is based on the traffic a webring receives through the webring system and is not intended to be a general (or specific) rating system concerning quality of a webring. I have found little tiny webrings with incredable sites who not receive the hits they definitely deserve.
But it still tells me that people like to surf our webring and your site (should you choose to become a member) will definitely receive some (or many) hits from our March Mom webring.
This really makes me a bit proud because when I founded this ring I was not so sure if there would be really an interest in this kind of webring - time has proofen there definitely is.

I was born almost 38 years ago in Zurich, Switzerland, where I also have lived almost my whole live. I moved to San Francisco, California in December 1991. Most of my working time I spent as a bartender in a blues club with nightly live music in downtown San Francisco. In this bar it was that I meet my former husband (he was a regular customer there) early 1992 while at work mixing drinks or collecting the cover charge at the door.
We got married in March 1995, on the 21st to be exact as this was his birthday.
End of July or the beginning of August (I am not so sure anymore) I took a pregnancy test and yes, the line changed color - I was pregnant for the first time in my entire live.
I always have lived a pretty wild and adventures live and have spent short periods of times in Berlin, Paris, Rom and London.
But never ever I was around kids or even slightly interested in children. If you showed me a baby I took a hick but subito!!!
And now there I was - pregnant and totally unprepared for this major task.
I naturally did not receive much support in relation of my pregnancy from my friends but I can't blame them, they where eitherway musicians or barhoppers and just from a different enviroment which is not so family oriented.
I did deliver Renee in San Pablo, California and no, her father did not show up for her birth even though I had called him more than once and was secretly still hoping he would.
At that time I was not married anymore.
Renee has changed my live in so many ways, she is a gift from heaven, put into my arms and trusted on to me. I hope I can be a good mummy to her.
While I was still together with Renee's father he had interduced me to America on line. I had no clue about internet things and wasted a long time just chatting on America on line's channels - mostly in local rooms. At some point I switched to GNN and discovered the Storksite. I really can say that without the support of other Storkies I would not have made it through my pregnancy. My username on the Storksite was RENEE but I have changed it now to MarchMom.
After all our babies where born the March board got wiped out by the Storksite to make room for the March mom's 98. At this point of time Tori (which is a fantastic person - I meet her twice personally...), the founder of the Storksite had not expanded to "after birth boards and baby gram's" and so I was looking out once again for other March moms.
Denise, a November mom from the Storksite did ask me sometimes in May last year if I would have a website for Renee to show off her pictures.
Of course I didn't - I had no clue about this field but made my first site at WBS shortly after Denise's request, using the WBS on-line editor and actually just for Denise.
Well, I had no luck finding any March mom's and so, after learning more about web pages (believe it or not, it took me 1 1/2 months just to figure out how to make a link!!!) I created a website for March Mom's on July 20st 97 saying that I was searching for members in my March Mom's Webring.
The first member knocking on my door was Angela, proud mummy to not only one but two March babies. She was also a member of the mailing list March97 and so I got interduced to mailing lists.
I did find SAH-AP through my webring's member Petra and Parent-l through my webring's member Schai.
All other list I discovered through posts on one of those lists.
I have found so much support through this mailing list that I never will be able to give enough back to all this comunities.
But to get back on track with my "intro in a nutshell":
I was a single mom for almost the entire first year of Renee's live.
I still live in the same apartment in Richmond where Renee was concieved and almost got delivered (for those who have read my birth story, you will remember that that darn kid came out in two pushes in roughly five minutes - lol!).
Peter, my good friend for seven years now has moved in here. He was actually the one introducing me to Renee's father; they use to come into "my blues bar" to play pool and to be listening to the bands. He is a quiet type, does not speak much but really adores Renee. I am really happy for her that she now also has a father figure in her live. Peter and me are getting pretty good along but of course it is not the kind of stormy romance you would expect - we are friends for to long for that kind of stuff. Next month I think we will be moving for a year to Switzerland so my family can meet Renee.
Our goals as parents?
I would say to break the circle and to be better parents as we had.
Peter is in most points very supporting of my ideas of parenting.
Should I tell you that I have skipped for the longest time treats with Sears on the March97 list because I assumed it was just trivial talk about shopping?
Renee sleeps in my bed and can choose when to wean. I am "wearing" her often, sometimes I think she is glued onto my hip.
I will teach her to be strong as a woman and proud to be a woman.
I will tell her that she is beautifull and special with her tan skin (yes, my Renee is by-racial...) and that she should be proud of her background even though her father (from which she has her beautifull skin color) does not care much for her. He has seen her eight times now in a full year and does not support us, as a matter of fact he did not even give her a little present for christmas or her first birthday...
I really hope I can be a good mother for her and you are helping me to achieve my goal - I thank you so much!!!
Well, I hope I did note bore you to much with my more info / intro in a nutshell and if you have read on until here I thank you for listening.
Marlyse and her center of the universe, my beautifull daughter Renee, born on March 21st 1997.

PS: This site is still kind off a newby and most of it's content is still written in the stars (in my head but not put into html yet).
Be assured that the look of this page may change very frequently!
Also, I sometimes receive feedback (positiv ones and not so glamourous ones as well for my site) and I would like to add something to this topic:
I ALWAYS appreciate your input, if you now tell me that you like my site or if you think it is not so great or even terrible.
But it does not help me (or the visitors of my pages) just to let me know that it has tons of spelling errors because I know that already. English is not my native language and my grammar and spelling is poor - am aware of this fact. What would have a positiv inpact on the quality of my site would be to let me know what words are misspelled so I could fix the problem!
Also I do know that my site is not loading to fast but with everything else, I need first to learn how I could change that.
So, dear critical visitor: if you take the time to send me a flame (or just a not very helpful critic instead of some tips for improvments...) why don't you spend this time giving me some real pointers?
This would really be helpful and not just leave a bitter taste in my mouth as I try to creat a nice site and also are putting a lot of time into my site.

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